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AMAND: Do rules on smoking affect your decisions? 

A busy weekend meant hitting two concerts, one casino and Fairmount Park.

And at each establishment, its rules on smoking played a big role in the decisions my husband and I made about where to go and spend our money.

We don't smoke; no one in our household smokes. We live in Illinois, home to a statewide ban on smoking in public places. . . .

The St. Louis city and county smoking ban goes into effect on Jan. 2, although it has more loopholes than the Illinois ban.

Are you one of the people looking forward to the ban, or one of the people who sees it as too much government? How often do the rules about smoking weigh on your decision on where to eat, shop or play? Or is cigarette smoke something you just put up with as a cost of going out?

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